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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17153)	11/23/2002 9:52:28 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 93284

That might do the trick, although I think that there is just as much of a rationale in making it means tested. That is the sort of thing which takes me to the limit of my examination of the issue........

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17153)	11/23/2002 10:01:10 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 93284

By the way, I think that the reason that there was a cap on taxable income was to maintain the fiction that Social Security was a responsible pension plan, and that there was a reasonable relationship between what one contributes and the eventual benefit. Since income derived from Social Security is capped, contributions were capped. We may as well drop the fiction, and regard it as just another income maintenance program. But if so, why should the very affluent get it? Why not confine it to the working class, or those middle class seniors who might take a nose dive in standard of living without it?